Google Earth

[OwlHoot]

Have any of you folks had a play with it?

It's brilliant!

How do you stop the view flipping over from birds eye view into "sideways mode" when taking the mouse cursor off it?

Edit: It's OK, cracked it - the button with the triangle over the horizontal bar.

 

[SupremeSpod]

How do you stop the view flipping over from birds eye view into "sideways mode" when taking the mouse cursor off it?

Don't drink so much the night before...

Spod - In "The bill is in the post" mode!

 

[rl4engc]

Just resurrecting a ten year old thread.

Anyone tried Google Earth recently? Last time I did it had some 3D buildings that people had supplied, overlaid on a 2D aerial photo image. But now, entire villages and towns are modelled in 3D, right down to cars, trees etc. And the textures applied to individual roofs, apexes, fronts etc. I even spotted a pylon floating in mid air.

FFffuuuu... Not often I'm impressed by what Google/MS/Tw@tter/F***book put out as it's normally some tulip to do with recoding every aspect of your lives on a database.

They've obviously had some kind of "Peace through light" aircraft-bourne-laser/texture mapping thing out, as there's far too much detail to for it to be have done 'manually'.

I'm thinking this could be a starting point for some sort of GTA-meets the real world type open source game, I'd imagine e.g. Flight Simulator can plumb into the new data for those into that?

Can't post a screenshot as it's a standalong program, and a Google Image search just shows the usual cities with manually created buildings/trees.

 

[CloudWalker]

Have you found Wally yet?

 

[tractor]

Just resurrecting a ten year old thread.

Anyone tried Google Earth recently? Last time I did it had some 3D buildings that people had supplied, overlaid on a 2D aerial photo image. But now, entire villages and towns are modelled in 3D, right down to cars, trees etc. And the textures applied to individual roofs, apexes, fronts etc. I even spotted a pylon floating in mid air.

FFffuuuu... Not often I'm impressed by what Google/MS/Tw@tter/F***book put out as it's normally some tulip to do with recoding every aspect of your lives on a database.

They've obviously had some kind of "Peace through light" aircraft-bourne-laser/texture mapping thing out, as there's far too much detail to for it to be have done 'manually'.

I'm thinking this could be a starting point for some sort of GTA-meets the real world type open source game, I'd imagine e.g. Flight Simulator can plumb into the new data for those into that?

Can't post a screenshot as it's a standalong program, and a Google Image search just shows the usual cities with manually created buildings/trees.

FS has had that level of detail ever since it graduated from wireframe graphics. It was just local though and the more regional/national you got as you flew, the more generalised it became. Most of them are based on geo data gathered by the satellite/GPS companies I guess and that has been happening for years. Which is great until a dataset is published that is 100m off, like the one for northern Portugal was for a while. Sailors and boat captains had to do conversions and make allowances for it for a while /ouch.

 

[BrilloPad]

Is there an app for it yet?

 

[rl4engc]

.. are based on geo data gathered by the satellite/GPS companies I guess and that has been happening for years.

This isn't altitude data though, it litereally shows individual houses, "blobs" for trees, with the textures applied to each surface. I'll try and link to an example.

Right something weird going on here, last night on my Android tablet, latest "Google Earth", I can look round my town and see individual houses in 3d, even HGV trailers etc. were in 3D with the writing on the sides. I've just put GE on my PC and it's all flat, like scrolling over a large bitmap image, even with "3D buildings" turned on.

Edit: Confirmed, on Android App it's Full 3D, e.g. Go to "Blackpool", of course the tower is in 3D but zoom down to street level and pan round. From directly above it's a bit like GTA2, but then you can look from a lower angle and see the level of detail.

Can't see any news for this update/new imagery?